It is not easy for OSinraci: during their previous match their robot got stuck...During this friendly game, they dominated the game largely but they didn't change anything on their robot.That's the game... but it's hard.

A special dedication from OSinraci on their robot for the support we gave them:

The ranking is made official, we stay second and RCVA first.On the third position is the German team RCA from Aachen.

It is with a big surprise and joy that we have to compete this morning against RCVA (F).La Touffe ( RCVA's robot) seems to be in very good shape!

John is impressed and stressed... The pressure is going up! It is a question of mental, John has to be strong...Some warm-up, all seems fine, some oil here and there on some gears to eliminate all John's tensions and John is ready.

It is a magnificent show that gave us John and La Touffe. On the table only 4 tomatoes and 3 corns left!A score of 4650 points to 2400 in favour of RCVA!

Until the end of the matches and the ranking for the qualifications, John gets some rest to recuperate from his stress for the finals in the afternoon.And to gather some strength a friendly game with OSinraci is planned.

Today (Saturday 29th of May) we got some visits at the stand and Matthieu presented John:

In the meantime, Cedric was totally absorbed by his work:

On the play field the mascots are rare, only one has been spotted:

This year to be able to follow the scoring in real time, an automatic scoring system is used based on a balance is to weight the harvest (the points are based on the weight of the elements to gather: 300 points for an orange, 250 for a corn and 150 for a tomato):

And again a big THANK YOU to Microb for its sensors! They have been installed and John feels 20 years younger!

It has been made available: - our friends OSinraci (Belgium) are in the 16th position. - our friends RCVA (France) are, without surprises, at the 1st position with beautiful matches (and a total of 25 000 points). - at the 4th position is ETS Montreal. - from our side, we got the 2nd position with about 13 000 points.

Tomorrow will take place the last match for the qualifications.

John is already gone with a nice evening program: sauna, massage and some meditation about today's achievements.For the team, it will be picon-beer (a &quot;delicacy&quot; of Alsace) and some white wine before dinner... ;-)

The first match starts at 9.30.John is in good shape, starts right away and collects some mais corns.He goes to the container to unload his harvest and doing so, a corn slips on the side, it happens...But this seems to deconcentrate John for a moment. Enough for him to loose his focus when handling a corn and there it comes, a cramp!!The arm get stucked... and won't move until the end of the game!

After the homologation of John Beer (our robot) in the morning, a first match takes place around 20.00.John does not seems to suffer of jet lag and win his first match with 2000 points (to 1000 points agains Catschadura (CHE)).